Love Is Healing

The Love is Healing Fund is G4GC’s first grantmaking fund, established in April 2020 to move resources to girls and gender-expansive youth, their families, and communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the Love Is Healing Fund has grown to be our largest and most diverse fund, supporting youth who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latina/e, Asian, Arab, Pacific Islander, and/or other people of color.

Funding priorities

Through the Love is Healing Fund, G4GC addressed COVID-19-related advocacy and immediate mapping needs. Other priorities include:

Building economic pathways for young people including workforce and leadership development.
Educational responses that ensure girls and gender-expansive youth have access to safe, inclusive, and affirming learning environments.
Interventions to support systems-impacted youth and those impacted by gender-based violence.
Preventative or responsive mental, physical and emotional health strategies.
Efforts led by young people to advance a strong and vibrant multi-racial democracy.

Highlights

$4m

Within the first 8 months of launching our COVID-19 response fund we deployed more than $4 million to more than 120 organizations in 23 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

$12m

To date, Love Is Healing has awarded over $12.2 million to 177 organizations across the country, with over 47% of that amount going to grant renewals to sustain programs and organizations.

In 2022, we hosted a youth retreat in New York City with young people from across the country to deepen their collective identity as philanthropic leaders and to inform our youth engagement strategy.